FRENCH SILVER IIILondon, November 7,1945, bought in);
[Jacques Helft, Paris, 1940s]; Arturo Lopez-
Willshaw, Paris, late 1940s; Patricia Lopez-
Willshaw (widow of Arturo Lopez-Willshaw),
Paris (offered for sale, Sotheby's, Monaco,
June 23, 1976, lot 48, bought in).
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louis XIV:
Faste et decors, May-October i960, no. 378,
pi. 58.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacques Helft, French Master Goldsmiths and
Silversmiths (New York, 1966), pp. 60-61,
illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 2, pp. 4-5,
illus.; Gillian Wilson, "The Kedleston Foun
tain: Its Development from a Seventeenth-
Century Vase," GettyMusJ 11 (1983), pp. 1-12,
figs. 1-4, 6-7, 9,11,16-17.- Pair of Tureens, Liners, and Stands
Paris, 1726-1729
By Thomas Germain, with arms added in
1764 by his son Francois-Thomas Germain
Silver
Marked variously on tureens, liners, and
stands with a crowned AT (the warden's mark
used between August 13,1726, and August
13,1727); a crowned Μ (the warden's mark
used between August 12,1728, and August
26, 1729); a crowned A overlaid with crossed
Z's (the charge mark used between May 6,
1722, and September 3,1727, under the fer-
mier Charles Cordier); a crowned A on its
side (the charge mark used between
September 3,1727, and December 22,1732,
under the fermier Jacques Cottin); (?) a
chancellor's mace (the discharge mark used
between September 3,1727, and December
22,1732); an artichoke mark (for old works
in silver to which new parts have been
added, used between November 22,1762,
and December 23,1768); and with three
obliterated marks, probably of Thomas
Germain. One tureen, stand, and liner
engraved N0m1, the others N^0 '2\ tureens
engraved with the weights .^<?^jö^2^
One of a pair 186and .48^3^2^; stands engraved with the
weights -48^2^ and -48^^ B°tn stands,
one with the added date 1764, engraved
FAIT. PARF. T.GERMAIN. ORF.SCULP.DU.R
OYAUX GALLERIES.DULOUVRE. APARIS.
The coat of arms of the Mello e Castro
family engraved on stands and applied on
tureens.
Tureens: Height: 67 A in. (17.4 cm); Width:
ι ft. 6Yz in. (47 cm); Depth: 10 in. (25.4 cm);
Stands: Height: i^7 Ae in. (3.7 cm); Width:
ι ft. 10V16 in. (57 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 4 in.
(40.6 cm)
Accession number 82 .DG.12.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Jacques-Samuel Bernard (1686-1753),
comte de Coubert, in the salle a manger of
his hotel, 46 rue du Bac, Paris [information:
B. Pons]; altered by Fran9ois-Thomas
Germain in 1764 for D. Martinho de Mello
e Castro, Count of Galveias, the Portuguese
ambassador in London (1755) and in Parisι8 5